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HYSTERIC

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person suffering from hysteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hysteric" is a kind of...):

mental case; neurotic; psychoneurotic (a person suffering from neurosis)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria

Example:

hysterical amnesia

Synonyms:

hysteric; hysterical

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)

Derivation:

hysteria (neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions)

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